I have been talking to Alberto Covarrubias, author of Virtual-E, VIDE and other cool stuff. Thanks to the FlashBoy, he is back to the scene and plans to release an updated version of his development tool “Virtual-Environment” aka VIDE.
Ideas for now are:
* Better compiler integration (to act as gccVB frontend)
* FlashBoy loader integration
* Sound editor(!)
In this thread, we would like to gather some feedback from developers, and collect ideas for new features and improvements. 🙂
DogP wrote:
I’d like an adjustable threshold for the map constructor… basically if I input a BMP w/ 4 colors, I’d like those 4 colors to be black through bright red (either automatically or manually selecting the threshold), instead of having to adjust the colors in the original BMP until it detects the 4 colors like I want.
I’ll try to think of other stuff, but that’s one I’ve run into a few times.
DogP
What are the four colors it will detect?
This reply was modified 15 years, 11 months ago by vbman.
As can be seen from the attached sample, VIDE takes the average greyscale value of a color (i.e. red + green + blue / 3) and performs a simple threshold on it as follows:
0 -> 63 = Black
64 -> 127 = Dark Red
128 -> 191 = Medium Red
192 -> 255 = Bright Red
I usually draw in grey and use the following four shades:
0 (or sometimes a little brighter) = Black
85 = Dark Red
170 = Medium Red
255 = Bright Red
If you want to draw in red and quickly get greyscale for import into VIDE, just do a “Convert to Grey” function (you can also reduce the saturation to 0) and then do a “Histogram stretch”. These two operations can be undone after exporting the image.